Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry, and Technology
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Shale gas extraction technologies
Abstract. While fracking is the most developed technology for extracting gas from shale formations, increasing social and environmental pressures have led to the development of other alternatives. Several advancements include the utilization of pulsed arc electrohydraulic discharges, plasma stimulation and fracturing technology, …
The future of shale: The US story and its implications
In a high-price environment, shale producers could throw money at a problem or a supplier, while the low-price environment forced them to wring efficiencies out of the process. As a result, US shale producers adjusted exploration and extraction techniques to weather the turmoil of low oil prices and Saudi oil-market policies prior to the Vienna ...
Oil shale processing technology | Semantic Scholar
Oil shale processing technology. V. D. Allred. Published 1982. Engineering, Environmental Science, Materials Science. No Paper Link Available. Save to Library. …
New Drilling Technology of Shale Gas and Tight Gas
Nowadays, foreign developers of shale gas, specially the United States, have the most sophisticated and mature development technology in the world, In the analysis of the development process, horizontal well and large-scale reservoir reconstruction is the golden key to develop unconventional oil and gas. This paper summarized on typical and ...
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Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry, and Technology. January 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9763-3_102. In book: Fossil Energy (pp.47-83) Authors: Vahur Oja. Eric M. Suuberg. Brown University. To read ...
Damage evolution characteristics of 3D reconstructed …
Keywords Shale · CT scanning technology · Digital image processing · Numerical simulation · Fracture processes Introduction Shale gas is an unconventional clean energy source. In recent years, it has become a new research hotspot in the energy industry (Lei et al. 2021; Bilgen and Sarıkaya 2016; Meakin et al. 2013; Wang and Li 2017).
How is Shale Gas Produced?
Producible portions of shale gas formations are located many thousands of feet below the surface, well below groundwater aquifers. Modern hydraulic fracturing technology …
Development review and the prospect of oil shale in …
Oil shale in-situ catalysis is essentially a thermal catalysis process, and efficient heating technology is a crucial aspect of shale oil extraction. Currently, the primary heating methods employed in situ mining technology include reaction heating, …
Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry and Technology
Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry and Technology Vahur Oja1 and Eric M. Suuberg2 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia 2Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Glossary Bitumen Organic solvent-soluble portion of oil shale organic matter Direct retorting Retorting in whichthe ...
Oil Shale
The shale oil is then refined of impurities, such as sulfur. In Situ . In situ is a new, experimental method of extracting shale oil. During the in situ process, oil shale is not mined or crushed. Instead, the rock is heated to its oil window while it is still underground. One technology used for in situ oil extraction is known as volumetric ...
Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry and Technology
Through the long history of oil shale utilization, ex situ (above the ground or surface) retorting technologies have been practically the only commercial technology …
Review of oil shale in-situ conversion technology
Shell first proposed an in-situ conversion process (Shell ICP), which is an in-situ electrical heating method for oil shale conversion in the 1970s, and applied for invention patents in many countries [112], [113]. The technology involves drilling into the deposit, then placing an electrical heater in the borehole to heat the oil shale.
Extraction of Huadian oil shale in subcritical FeCl2 solution
The combination of subcritical water and catalyst was proposed for oil shale extraction. The extraction of Huadian oil shale in FeCl 2 solution was performed at 350 °C to evaluate the combined method. At 20 h, a high yield of bitumen 1 (the bitumen discharged from shale matrix) was obtained in FeCl 2 solution with an optimal …
Low-to-medium maturity lacustrine shale oil resource and in …
Low-to-medium maturity lacustrine shale oil resource and in-situ conversion process technology: Recent advances and challenges ... Li, Q., et al. Current status and prospects of oil shale in-situ conversion technology in China. Petroleum Science Bulletin, 2023, 8(4): 475-490. (in Chinese) Vandenbroucke, M., Largeau, C. Kerogen origin, evolution ...
Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry and Technology
Oil Shale Processing, Chemistry and Technology. V. Oja, E. Suuberg. Published 2013. Chemistry, Environmental Science, Engineering. The work summarizes the various …
Development of a Coupling Oil Shale Retorting Process of …
However, this retorting technology is only applicable of coarse oil shale particles bigger than 10 mm in diameter. A lot of fine oil shale particles are discarded, resulting in waste of resources. Besides, this technology is criticized by low economic benefit. The main objective of this paper is to develop a coupling oil shale retorting …
Deep shale gas exploration and development in the …
Deep shale gas is significantly different from mid-deep shale gas in geological setting and engineering parameters, and it has more complex natural fractures and in-situ stress, making it more difficult to explore and develop (Table 1).After a systematic summary of the experiences gained in the Sichuan Changning–Weiyuan …
Review of electric heating technology of oil shale and its …
Ammonium sulfate, a by-product of oil shale processing, can also be used to produce fertilizer [7]. The Oil shale mining technology can be divided into traditional surface distillation technology and underground in-situ mining technology [8]. The primary way to develop oil shale is surface distillation.
State-of-the
Development of advanced oil shale processing technologies for production of liquid and gaseous fuels, as well as chemical raw materials, is a very topical problem. The article provides information ...
Review of electric heating technology of oil shale and its …
The in-situ mining technology of oil shale based on electric heating is gradually becoming the research focus in this field. In this paper, the electric heating mechanism, pyrolysis mechanism, and entropy production theory of oil shale are introduced. The traditional electric heating technology ( Shell in-situ conversion …
A Review on the Application of Numerical Simulation …
In response to the shortcomings of the current conventional surface dry distillation oil shale technology and combined with the characteristics of the oil shale …
Review of oil shale in-situ conversion technology
The concept of injecting heated gas into the oil shale reservoir for pyrolysis was the CRUSH (Chevron's technology for the Recovery and Upgrading of oil from Shale) process proposed by the Chevron Corporation, California [27], [28]. It utilizes natural or artificially induced fractures in the oil shale to inject heated gas into the oil shale ...
Advancements and Environmental Implications in Oil Shale …
Over the past 60 years, numerous technologies have been developed to recover shale oil from oil shale and process it into fuels and byproducts. As mentioned earlier, technologies were chosen based on their development stage and availability of economic data, providing a broad range of options for surface, near-surface, and deeper …
Status, disadvantages, and prospects of oil shale in China: …
The process of oil shale exploration and development projects could usually last for a long period, during which the relevant technologies would improve constantly. This could decrease the input or increase the output of oil shale projects, which would affect the economy of oil shale mining.
Compositional variety complicates processing plans for US shale …
The shale ranges in thickness from 50-550 ft at a depth of 1,500-6,500 ft and is estimated to hold between 58-65 bcf/sq mile. 2. Click here to enlarge image. Reported initial production rates are ...
Research and Discussion on Complex Situation Processing Technology …
The treatment process of complex problems such as long-section gravel layer drilling and leakage co-existence encountered in this well is analyzed and discussed, and the drilling hole-forming technology for long-section gravel layer, the treatment technology for complex situations of leakage co-existence and wellbore collision prevention ...
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Oil Shale Processing
Shale Oil Processing and Extraction Technologies. Sohrab Zendehboudi PhD, Alireza Bahadori PhD, CEng, in Shale Oil and Gas Handbook, 2017. 2 Description of Oil Shale Processing. Shale oil processing is defined as an industrial process to which raw shale oil is subjected to extract oil from it—basically a process to produce …
How is Shale Gas Produced?
The hydraulic fracturing process was used in conventional limestone and sandstone reservoirs for decades before the onset of the shale revolution. But it was not until the 1970s that significant attempts to apply the technology to gas shale were made, pioneered by DOE research and demonstration project cost-sharing